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unable to compile Newspost 2.1.1 in natty narwhal

Asked by Larry Barron

unable to compile Newspost 2.1.1 in natty narwhal I have all the latest updates that I know of... I am running the classic desktop (not that god awful Unity) and I am using the standard terminal not konsole... I used the following command, and got the following output (The Name/s has been changed to protect the innocent)...

larry@TUX:~$ cd /home/larry/Downloads/NNTP_Posters/newspost-2.1.1
larry@TUX:~/Downloads/NNTP_Posters/newspost-2.1.1$ make
make main CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall" LIBS=""
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/larry/Downloads/NNTP_Posters/newspost-2.1.1'
cd base ; make CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall"
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/larry/Downloads/NNTP_Posters/newspost-2.1.1/base'
gcc -O2 -Wall -o test test.c
In file included from newspost.h:40:0,
                 from test.c:20:
utils.h:29:8: error: conflicting types for ‘getline’
/usr/include/stdio.h:671:20: note: previous declaration of ‘getline’ was here
make[2]: *** [test] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/larry/Downloads/NNTP_Posters/newspost-2.1.1/base'
make[1]: *** [main] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/larry/Downloads/NNTP_Posters/newspost-2.1.1'
make: *** [opt] Error 2
larry@TUX:~/Downloads/NNTP_Posters/newspost-2.1.1$

Can anyone tell me how to fix this and get it to compile correctly?
Or better yet, tell me where to get a multi-stream binary uploader?

I am also going to try and compile "gnewspost-0.6" (a front end for Newspost).
Please remember I am a virgin at compiling, this is my first attempt at compiling anything in Linux... I'm a NOOB! And I HATE to use the command line if I can avoid it...
Thanks
Larry

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Are there no PPAs you can use?

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Larry Barron (lbarron14) said : 		#2

Whats a PPA? I am trying to upload binaries to the nntp (news) servers...
Can you suggest a program or can you tell me where to find its package (it no longer exist where it once was).

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Larry Barron (lbarron14) said : 		#3

On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 22:10 +0000, marcobra (Marco Braida) wrote:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/newspost/+question/180003
> >
> Project: evolution in Ubuntu => newspost in Ubuntu
>

OK thats great... I can post TEXT messages AS ME! to the news groups... but I need a program to post BINARIES! anonymously! to the newsgroups (thus Newspost and Gnewspost or ypost). I would use newsmangler but its in German and I only understand English... Do you know how I can post LOTS of Binaries to the newsgroups ANONYMOUSLY to the servers? And Please tell me theres a GUI than I can just point and click and it will make NZB & PAR2 files and it will yenc encode the files! the method I use now to post uses a windows program that will only let me upload to 8 groups at a time, and is as slow as cold molasses going uphill in January in Alaska. I need a better method/program.

Any help you can offer will be appreciated
Sincerely
Larry Barron

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Larry Barron (lbarron14) said : 		#4

On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 22:10 +0000, marcobra (Marco Braida) wrote:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/newspost/+question/180003
>
> Project: evolution in Ubuntu => newspost in Ubuntu
>

OK thats great... I can post TEXT messages AS ME! to the news groups...
but I need a program to post BINARIES! anonymously! to the newsgroups
(thus Newspost and Gnewspost or ypost). I would use newsmangler but its
in German and I only understand English... Do you know how I can post
LOTS of Binaries to the newsgroups ANONYMOUSLY to the servers? And
Please tell me theres a GUI than I can just point and click and it will
make NZB & PAR2 files and it will yenc encode the files! the method I
use now to post uses a windows program that will only let me upload to 8
groups at a time, and is as slow as cold molasses going uphill in
January in Alaska. I need a better method/program.

Any help you can offer will be appreciated
Sincerely
Larry Barron

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Larry Barron (lbarron14) said : 		#5

Anyone know how to set up evolution to download/upload to Usenet?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Please make a new question for your new issue

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